Actors Bradley Whitford, Joshua Lewis, Gabrielle Carteris show support of unions by joining Madison

[eowyn_of_rohan]

Source: Appleton-Fox Cities Post-Crescent (Wisconsin)

MADISON – Actor Bradley Whitford wasn’t in Madison to meet the governor Saturday. The Madison native, who has starred in numerous films and television roles, including his best-known role as Josh Lyman on The West Wing, has met many politicians before. But today he was in town to speak to the people, the tens of thousands people who protesting for workers rights at the Capitol.

.... Whitford (had) a message for Gov. Scott Walker, who recently introduced a plan to strip most Wisconsin public unions of bargaining powers. “With all due respect, you have made a humongous miscalculation and this won’t stand,” he said. “Look out the window. These people are not going to go away. This is a constituency that knows patience. They fish through ice.”

....“I think the people here don’t understand how powerfully this is resonating across the country,” said Whitford, who now lives in Los Angeles. “Not only in the states where there may be similar measures imminently, I mean it’s all over. In a country where the middle class is disappearing, where the discrepancy between what the rich are making and what the poor are making is spreading, unions are the greatest engine for creating the great American middle Ccass.



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Mr Whitford came to Madison from Los Angeles with 2 other actors and union members, Joshua Lewis of The Guiding Light, and Gabrielle Carteris of Beverly Hills 90210. Though this kind of thing doesn't impress me generally, it is nice to have their support!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. They are all Union members --

so they SHOULD be supporting the Wisconson action. I hope more SAG/SEG/AFTRA members do so.

[xmas74]

2. Exactly.

Union members should support each other.
It's just nice that he flew back home to show his support.

[Myrina]

3. I've always liked Whitford -- should have known he was a Cheesehead

:patriot:

[underpants]

6. He was the inspriation for Al Franken's "Supply Side Jesus" too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x11610

[Hawaii Hiker]

9. Whitford was in one of the most powerful ER episodes ever to

"Love's Labor Lost", where complications threatened the life of a mother and her baby...The mother died, baby survived, husband was Whitford...It was a gut wrenching episode...

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Thanks Bradley! Now if only some of the REAL White House people would

go to Madison...




"They fish through ice." :rofl:

[Kingofalldems]

5. K and R all Pro Union threads

[ReggieVeggie]

7. Oh noes!!!! The right wing will have a field day with this!!

Actors are already left-wing communist pinkos! They'll attach them and their actions to Obama!

[elleng]

8. Love 'Lemon Lyman,'

and watch him/them regularly via Netflix, to relieve myself from our real world miseries.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

10. More on this from Madison's Isthmus newspaper (the cooler one ;)

Isthmus reported that it was Robert Newman who PLAYED Joshua Lewis who came along to protest. Isthmus also had this to say about Brad Whitford's speech today:

Whitford introduced himself as a graduate of Madison's East High, and he thanked the 800 East students who recently left school to protest at the Capitol. As a Madison native, he said, he took it personally when he heard that Walker was favoring his "billionaire sugar daddies" at the expense of Wisconsin workers.

No one could doubt Whitford's passion. He gave a barn-burner of a speech, starting a call-and-response of "this will not stand!" He tore into the governor for "using the budget as a Trojan horse to deny American workers a seat at the table."

"Let's let 'em hear it over in Maple Bluff!" Whitford shouted, and the crowd didn't disappoint. In fact, their chant was probably audible all the way out in Sun Prairie. (MAPLE BLUFF IS A RITZY NEIGHBORHOOD IN East Side MADISON)

Carteris echoed the commonly heard local critique of Walker's budget bill by noting that "this is not about money; this is about power."

[Liberalynn]

11. Maybe all the Pro Union celebs of this country can get the attention of the MS outlets

They should all start lying to the coporate media shills saying they slept with Charlie Sheen and want to be interviewed about it and then start talking about union rights instead. A lame joke I know, its just the frustration that this isn't being covered in more places, not that I am surprised by that.

[classof56]

12. I like this idea--good one!

And thanks for the chuckle as I visualize those interviews...!

Peace and blessings.

[Honeycombe8]

13. That's good. But I have no idea who those people are. nt

[eowyn_of_rohan]

15. ...

neither do I - I watch very little mainstream TV - But I figured some here would know them.

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. see below...

[FailureToCommunicate]

16. If you have a public library nearby you MUST ask for "The West Wing" series

The show, about a progressive administration (!), aired during Bush years and helped many of us from sinking under total pessimism and despair.

Bradley Whitford played role of deputy WH chief of staff.

(If you get hooked, and watch all seven seasons, well, you'll have seen some of the best drama ever on TV)

[eowyn_of_rohan]

18. Thanks for the tip!

I'll see if our library has it!

[elleng]

19. Available on Netflix.

Its a real relief from the real world.

[Honeycombe8]

20. Oh, they're West Wing actors? I see. I never watched it. Don't watch much Network TV.

Am proud to say that I've never seen a single episode of American Idol, Survivor, or Lost.

I was interested in West Wing, but I think it came on the same time as something else I watched. And I don't do DVRs, as a matter of principle.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Kick this one.

[Raine]

21. Gabrielle Carteris is really good

she used to be on a show called the Crusaders (after BH 90210 went off), covered all kinds of injustices. I think it might have been a syndicated show, wasn't on too long but was really good.